. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . both do not enjoy the self-same plight;The soul is safe, the chick now fears the kite. But chicks from rotten eggs do not proceed;Nor is a hypocrite a saint rotten egg, though underneath the hen,If crackd, stinks, and is loathfome unto doth her warmth make what is rotten sound ;What ;9 rotten, rotten will at laft be hypocrite, sin has him in poifeliion,He is a rotten egg under profelhon. Some eggs bring cockatrices; and some menSome hatchd and brooded in the vipers eggs bring wild-fowls; an
. Divine emblems; or Temporal things spiritualized, &c. . both do not enjoy the self-same plight;The soul is safe, the chick now fears the kite. But chicks from rotten eggs do not proceed;Nor is a hypocrite a saint rotten egg, though underneath the hen,If crackd, stinks, and is loathfome unto doth her warmth make what is rotten sound ;What ;9 rotten, rotten will at laft be hypocrite, sin has him in poifeliion,He is a rotten egg under profelhon. Some eggs bring cockatrices; and some menSome hatchd and brooded in the vipers eggs bring wild-fowls; and some men there beAs wild as are the wildeft fowls that eggs bring spiders ; and some men appearMore venomd than the worft of spiders eggs bring pifmires; and some seem to meAs much for trifles as the pifmires thus do divers eggs from diffrent shapes,As like some men as monkeys are like this is but an egg, were it a chick,Here had been legs, and wings, and bones to pick. 12 DIVINE EMBLEMS V. OF FOWLS FLYING IN THE jtVgfi^JIETHINKS I see a sight moil excellent,{Kyi (I AH sorts of birds fly in the firmament:jjBBiVll Some great, some small, all of a divers kind, Mine eye affecting, pleafant to my mind. Look how they wing along the wholefome air, Above the world of worldlings, and their care. And as they divers are in bulk and hue, So are they in their way of flying too. So many birds, so many various things Swim in the element upon their wings. FOR YOUTH. 13 COMPARISON. Thefe birds are emblems of thofe men, that shall Ere long poflefs the heavens, their all in all. They each are of a cliff rent shape and kind ; To teach, we of all nations there shall find. They are some great, some little as we see, To shew some great, some small in glory be. Their flying diverfely, as we behold, Do shew saints joys will there be manifold. Some glide, some mount, some flutter, and some do, In a mixd way of flying, glory too. To shew that each shall to his f
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